David Thomson:  

Dave Thomson is a native of Los Angeles, California. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from Chouinard Art Institute where he majored in Film Arts, and he worked on animated feature films, primarily at the Walt Disney Studio, for thirty years before retiring. He is an award winning photographer and while working in the film industry was a member of the Cinematographer's Guild. Dave is a long time writer, researcher and collector of Mark Twain memorabilia and is an honorary member of the Mark Twain Home Foundation Board of Hannibal, Missouri. He also writes book and media reviews for the Mark Twain Forum. Dave's professional career includes the following: FILMS Turner Feature Animation Scene Planning and Voices: Cats Don't Dance, (1997) The Pagemaster, (1994) Hyperion Animation Studio Scene Planning: Bebe's Kids, (1992) Walt Disney Studio Burbank and Glendale, CA Scene Planning: Beauty and the Beast, 1991 Mickey's The Prince and the Pauper, (1990) The Little Mermaid, 1989 Who Framed Roger Rabbit, 1988 Oliver & Company, 1988 The Black Cauldron, 1985 The Fox And The Hound, 1981 The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, 1977 Pete's Dragon, 1977 The Rescuers, 1977 Robin Hood, 1973 Acting role in a Disney television series As Count Dracula: The Mystery in Dracula's Castle, 1973 Photographic layout: The Walt Disney Story The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal BOOKS Dust Jacket Design and Editing: A RIVER, A TOWN AND A BOY by Martha Adrian and Roberta Hagood. Available from Mark Twain Book Shop, 213 Hill St., Hannibal, MO 63401 573-221-2140 Dust Jacket Design and Co-author: HANNIBAL HERITAGE J. Hurley & Roberta Hagood, and Dave Thomson, Heritage House Publishing, 2003. The Hagoods had not planned to publish another book until showed them his design for the dust jacket with the title "Hannibal Heritage." Upon seeing the dust jacket Hurley and Roberta resolved to go ahead with this final project which was compiled during the time that the couple both occupied the same room in the Willow Care convalescent home in Hannibal. Roberta continued working with unflagging energy to complete this collection after Hurley passed away in November 2002. The book has been received with enthusiasm in Hannibal since its release in December of 2004 and continues to be sold in local book stores and gift shops. Artistic contributions to SEARCHING FOR JIM SLAVERY IN SAM CLEMENS'S WORLD, by Terrell Dempsey (Univ. of Missouri Press, 2003) including detail of a map of Missouri, photograph of the headstone of the slave Agness Flautleroy and preparation of contemporary newspaper advertisements. Vine and Fig Tree Front cover photograph for: Vine and Fig Tree: Salt River County Chronicles, by Goldena Howard Trafford, 2002 "Author Goldena Howard has created a time capsule of people, mores, culture and language from 1880 - 1960. Set in the fictional communities of Salt River County, Missouri, the stories capture a time and place that exist only in the memory of some. The characters are saintly and less-than saintly; they love and hate, scheme and plan. Themes of honesty, love and wholesomeness run throughout the stories." A drawing by Dave Thomson based on Henry Lewis' panoramic sketchbook of Hannibal in 1848 was featured on the front cover and fly leaves of HANNIBAL TOO (1986) DUST JACKET DESIGNS AND PHOTOGRAPHS: •Hannibal Bridges the Mississippi, Hagood, J. Hurley.; Hagood, Rob...Expand for more